12 THE CONISTECTICUT AGRICULTURAL 



AN ACT CONCERNING COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS. 



General Assembly, 

 January Session, A. D. 1882. 



£e it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives in 

 General Assembly convened: 



Sectiojt 1. Every person or company who shall sell, offer, or 

 expose for sale, in this State, any commercial fertilizer or manure, 

 the retail pi-ice of which is ten dollars, or more than ten dollars 

 per ton, shall affix conspicuously to every package thereof a 

 plainly printed statement, clearly and truly certifying the number 

 of net pounds of fertilizer in the package, the name, brand, or 

 trade-mark under which the fertilizer is sold, the name and address 

 of the manufacturer, the place of manufacture and the chemical 

 composition of the fertilizer, expressed in the terms and manner 

 approved and currently employed by the Connecticut Agricultural 

 Experiment Station.* 



If any such fertilizer be sold in bulk, such printed statement 

 shall accompany and go with every lot and parcel sold, offered, 

 or exposed for sale. 



Sec. 2. Before any commercial fertilizer, the retail price of 

 which is ten dollars, or more than ten dollars per ton, is sold, 

 offered, or exposed for sale, the manufacturer, importer, or party 

 who causes it to be sold, or offered for sale, within the State of 

 Connecticut, shall file witli the director of the Connecticut Agri- 



* A statement of the per cents, of Nitrogen, Phosphoric Acid (P2O5) and 

 Potash (K2O), and of their several states or forms, will suffice in most cases. 

 Other ingredients may be named if desired. 



In all cases the per cent, of nitrogen must be stated. Ammonia may also be 

 given v?hen actually present in ammonia salts, and "ammonia equivalent to 

 nitrogen " may likewise be stated. 



The per cent, of soluble and reverted phosphoric acid may be given separately 

 or together, and the term " available " may be used- in addition to, but not 

 instead of soluble and reverted. 



Insoluble phosphoric acid may be stated or omitted. 



In case of Bone, Fish, Tankage, Dried Meat, Dried Blood, etc., the chemical 

 composition may take account of the two ingredients: Nitrogen, Phosphoric 

 Acid. 



For Potash Salts give always the per cent, of Potash (potassium oxide); that 

 of Sulphate of Potash or Muriate of Potash may also be stated. 



The chemical composition of other fertilizers may be given as found in the 

 Station Reports. 



